Side A
Artist	Song
Wanda Jackson	Let's Have A Party
Wanda Jackson	Mean, Mean, Man
Wanda Jackson	Rock Your Baby
Wanda Jackson	Fujiyama Mama
Wanda Jackson	I Gotta Know
Wanda Jackson	Hard Headed Woman
Wanda Jackson	Honey Bop
Wanda Jackson	Tongue Tied
Wanda Jackson	Baby Loves Him
Wanda Jackson	Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad
Wanda Jackson	Cool Love
Wanda Jackson	There's A Party Goin' On
Wanda Jackson	Riot In Cell Block #9
Wanda Jackson	Tunnel Of Love
Wanda Jackson	Sticks And Stones
Wanda Jackson	Who Shot Sam?
Wanda Jackson	Savin' My Love
Wanda Jackson	You Don't Know Baby
Wanda Jackson	Fallin'
Wanda Jackson	Money Honey
Wanda Jackson	Rip It Up
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Wanda Jackson	Big Iron Skillet
Wanda Jackson	A Girl Don't Have To Drink To Have Fun
Rosie Flores w/ Wanda Jackson	His Rockin' Little Angel
Rosie Flores	You Tear Me Up
Candye Kane	I'm On A Bender
Bonnie Raitt	Me And The Boys
A-Bones	Sham Rock
The Go-Go's	Let's Have A Party
The Friggs	Mama. Look At Me Now!
Thee Headcoatees	Jackie Chan Does Kung Fu
Petty Booka	Fujiyama Mama
Cub	You Know He Did
Alleycats	Nothing Means Nothing
X	Breathless
Ringling Sisters	Velvet Crush
Janis Martin	My Boy Elvis
The Collins Kids	Mercy
Wanda Jackson	Man, We Had A Party

Comment:

Wanda Jackson: (Maverick, Queen Of Rock-a-Billy, The female Elvis, raven-haired, Heavy-lidded beauty) The salacious rockabilly that came out of Jackson's mouth in the late 50's was unlike any that had been heard of before from a female rock and roll singer. Sure there were contemporaries like The Collins Kids and Janis Martin but Wanda sang about shakin' chickens in the middle of the room with a raw, bluesy growl that was ahead of its time. The choruses were punched with exhilarating falsetto whoops more suitable for orgies than your average 50's teenage party. A hard driving combo consisting of the likes of Roy Clark, Joe Maphis, Buck Owens, and "the black Jerry Lee Lewis"--Big Al Downing backed her. Listen to "Let's Have a Party", "Mean, Mean, Man," or "Fujiyama Mama", (some of which are self-penned) and you picture Jackson as a whiskey soaked, hell-raiser, but nothing is further from the truth. She was a milk-drinking girl from Oklahoma.Like her male counterpart--Elvis, she possessed that raw sensuality coupled with a beguiling "awshucksiness" Her only song to chart in the USA was "Lets Have a Party", but one listen to the other great singles, it is fair to say she is not only the greatest female rockabilly singer but one of the best rockabilly singers period. "Fujiyama Mama" was a big hit in Japan and considering it was only a dozen years after WWII, the Japanese didn't listen to the lyrics very closely. Ironically the song was too hot for American stations to play in more ways than one. By the early sixties Wanda had transitioned herself into a country singer and then a gospel singer. The tape consists of Jackson's work including two of her country songs, contemporaries--Janis Martin and The Collins Kids, as well as artists who invoke the attitude and/or sound generated by the "shake it, bake it, naked"sounds. of Wanda Jackson.

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